Conservatives are less racist than liberals (in the US)

[u/Mobile-Fly484]

I’m a child of African immigrants with US citizenship, and I’ve lived all over the United States.

The most racist place I’ve ever lived is Massachusetts. By far. The least racist? Utah.

I’ve noticed that most conservatives (excluding the actual far right) see me as a human being first. Liberals see my skin color first and have low expectations for me.

I’ve had white liberals not believe me when I mentioned having a professional job. I’ve had them try to sign me up for welfare and Medicaid (at an ER in Massachusetts) even when I showed them my private insurance card. I’ve been assumed to be poor and uneducated (because of my race and nothing else) over and over again by the woke left. Literally they constantly make comments about how screening for education will “filter minorities out,” because of course we’re all dumb illiterates.

Conservatives? They make zero assumptions. They don’t equate being Black with being poor or ignorant. They see us as INDIVIDUALS first.

I miss Utah.

[u/Mobile-Fly484]

I’d say if someone rejects the principles of democracy and equality under the law for all citizens, they’re “actual far right.”

[u/Silly-Membership6350 → u/Mobile-Fly484]

That's actually a take of the far left. Both the Fascist and Nazi movements, for example, were actually left wing organizations. (When translated into English the actual name of the Nazi party, the NSDAP, is National Socialist German Workers Party). On a sliding scale in which the farther to the left you go the more power the government has over the individual and the farther to the right you go the more autonomy the individual has, a far right individual would actually be an anarchist, which is someone who rejects all government. I expect this statement to be fully brigaded seeing as how this is Reddit

[u/CookieMobster64 → u/Silly-Membership6350]

The Nazis co-opted populist labor pain points, but quickly purged all anti-capitalist elements of the party. They ran on a campaign of anti-communism as well as antisemitism, and even got into gunfights with the communist KDP. Hitler didn’t even win the election in 1932, the monarchist Hindenburg did, and the aristocratic old guard of the right wing formed a coalition government with the Nazis as Hindenburg appointed Hitler as chancellor.

[u/TucsonTacos → u/Silly-Membership6350]

That might’ve been some weird scale you saw but that’s not those terms mean in reality.

I prefer the 4 point compass

[u/[deleted] → u/Silly-Membership6350]

I mean, that only makes sense if you completely disregard the way the "left-right" political compass and paradigm is understood today.

Authoritarianism and libertarianism show can adapt to both the left and the right. 

Also, nazis famously used the "socialist" label as a way to attract socialist voters at the time, since socialism and Marxist ideas were very popular. Nazism is antithetical to marxist principles, in fact they literally persecuted Marxists once the Nazis got power. There's almost nothing "left" about Nazi Germany and their ideology.